Garden-sprinkler



il l lidillhlllllltil GLENN a". woonnurr, on Machine, New "roan.

GARDEN--SPRINKLER.

Application area octoher so,

To not" ar/zom fl may ('(illf'i'ill lle it lrnown that 1, Gimme J. vl oomr'urr, a citizen of the United States, residing at i l chi-as, in the county oi Cattaraugus, State u i" flew York, ha ve invented certain new and useful IHIPYOl GHIQIHTS in (lardensprinklers; and I do hereby declare the following to bl.- a full, clear, and exact description of the in rention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. i

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in sprinklers, particularly of that type including a rotary nozzle member, wherein the rotary movement is imparted by the cin'rent of water.

it is the object of the present invention to provide such a sprinkling apparatus which is relatively simple in structin'e, and which will operate to rotate the nozzle with a miniuuun expenditure of water for suchpurpose.

"With the above and other objects and adranta in view, the invention resides more particularly in the combination, formation and arrangement of parts as more fully described hereinafter and pointed out in the ap pended claims.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings, wherein similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which:

l igure 1 is a side elevation of the improved sprinkling apparatus.

:1 is a top plan view, and

3 is a detail sectional view of one of :iil/lkllli ineuihers.

Referring now more particularly to the :u-companying drawing, the improved appa 'atus comprises a pipe or conduit 5 provided at its upper end with an inwardly directed flange 6, and fitted over the pipe is a sleeve '7 also provided at its upper end with an in wardly directed flange 8 disposed in spaced relation to the flange 6.

The sleeve 7 is held in fixed relation to the pipe 5 by means of a set screw 9 and has encircling its upper end a split ring 10 provided with radially extending apertured ears 11 through which is passed a clamping bolt 12. The ring 10 is further provided at spaced intervals in its circumference with radial projections 13 upon which a gear 14 is supported and secured in fixed relation through the medium of bolts 15.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented ill or. 23, 1.920.

isle. Serial No. 12%? Elwivelly mounted within the pipe 5, sleeve and gear l-L is a vertical. conducting pipe 16 the lower on d of which is outwardly flanged. as at 17 to engage beneath the flange (3 so that displacement of the pipe 16 will be prevented.

lilngaged upon the upper end of the con.- ducting pipe 16 is a T-coupling 18 with the urine of which horizontal delivery pipes 19 and 330 are respectively connected, the pipe 19 being of greater length than the pipe 20 and terminally inclined upwardly as shown, while the pipe 20 is slightly inclined i1iwardly for a purpose to a Jpcar. A nozzle 21 is threaded in the end of each of the pipes 19 and 20 and is provided with a constricted bore through which the water is discharged.

For rotating the pipes 1.5) and 20 upon swivel mounting there is provided a frz'uue 522:1 including a ilurality of 'isverse bars 12st rigidly sulniiorlicd from pipes adjacent the T-couplingr 1S and a f paced, longitudinally extending; hars between winch is mounted a reducing train of gears so. The inner of the gears 12s is constantly in mesh with the fixed gear it while the outermost gear car ring shaft is extended above the upper liar and has slidahly lreyml thereon a paddle wheel 27 so disposed as to recei re the full force of the water discharged through the pipe :20. There is further carried by this outer gear shaft and pivoted to the paddle wheel, a pair of governor arms 28 operable with the paddle wheel and adapted to move the latter, should i t attain an excessive speed, into frictional contact with a dish Fill liia'cd to the upper frame bar the latter serving as a brake to reduce the speed of the "heel as is obvious.

It is of course unden ood that this more uiout of the paddle Wheel is transmitted to the train of 26 which by reasonv of their meshing ."h the tilted gear l-l will re volve the frame and the pipes 19 and :20, the water from the pipe 19 being dischargi cd in a relatively large circle, while the water from the pipe 230 will be broken by the paddlr \vh l and projected in a spray within said circle.

ll will he noted that the bars of the gear frame are pivotally mounted at their inner ends upon a bolt passed through the transverse hars 9st, so that they may he swung horizontally to more the paddle l. l U

tion' with Wheel toward and away from the pipe 20, the Water discharged through the latter being thus caused to impinge upon a greater or less area of the paddle Wheel whereby to increase or reduce its speed as is obvious. A bar 31 pivotally connected at one end with the'transverse bars 24: and having slotted connection With/the bars :.5, is employed to hold the latter in adjusted position.

lVhat I claim is 1. In a sprinkling apparatus, the combinafeed pipe, and second pipe swiveled thereon and branched into two delivery pipes having nozzles; of bars fixed across said delivery pipes, a frame pivoted to said bars,

a paddle Wheel mounted in said frame, means'whereby rotation of the Wheel causes the revolution of said frame and nozzles around the feed pipe, and a brace adpistably connecting said bars and frame for holding the latter fixed in various positions whereby the paddle Wheel. receives more or less Water from one of said nozzles.

2. I11 a sprinkling apparatus, the combination with a feed pipe, a fixed gear thclco 1. and a second pipe SWIVGlOCl in the first and branched into two delivery pipes having uoz zles; of bars fixed across said delivery pipes. a frame pivoted to said cross bars. a paddle wheel mounted in said frame, a train of gearing connecting the wheel with the fix.=d gear, and means for holding the frame fixed in adjusted positions whereby the paddle Wheel receives more or less water from one of said nozzles.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature. in the presence of two witnesses.

GLENN J. \VOODRUFF.

Witnesses H. M. DARBEE, V. S. LEWIS. 

